Top 5 Questions for Back-to-School Night on Technology Use and
Internet Safety

The must-have conversation for parents and teachers on keeping kids
safe, focused, and responsible

September 03, 2014 10:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the first-day-of-school jitters behind them, students will swap
places with their parents in classrooms across the country at
back-to-school nights. As tablets replace textbooks, a measure of
effectiveness in today’s classroom is the ability to engage and excite
students to learn through the use of digital technology. Parents can use
five simple questions to learn teachers’ strategies and practical
approaches for keeping kids safe, focused and responsible online.

How do you keep students safe online and prevent them from
inadvertently seeing inappropriate content?

Do you have the ability to block social sites that are distracting and
off-task?

What is the policy on phones and other electronic devices students
bring from home?

What are your recommended websites and applications for homework?

Do you teach how to be selective about connecting with friends on
social networks, and how to recognize cyberbullying and when to come
to an adult? Any advice for home?

“Educational technology is transforming the way children learn and
educators teach. There needs to be an open and ongoing dialogue between
parents and educators to keep students safe and to raise the next
generation of responsible and productive digital citizens,” said George
Dotterer, CEO and co-founder of Verite Educational Systems Inc. and
co-developer of NetRef,
the first-ever educational security system that safeguards all Internet
access points.

Rolling out to schools this fall, NetRef offers teachers a one-touch,
intuitive tool for managing Internet access in the classroom. Easy to
use and integrate, NetRef offers umbrella protection across a school's
networks and on all student-owned devices.

With NetRef, schools can add value to their technology investment by
helping educators reduce distractions and maximize technology as a
teaching tool, with multi-tiered oversight functionality across the
school, in the classroom, and by student.

NetRef plans to launch the beta home version later this fall, with a
product roll-out slated for families in spring 2015.